How can we secure a solar eclipse induced apocalypse next time? More virgin sacrifices? Less? Virgins are quite abundant these days. We could go either way…

  • grasshopper_mouse@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    What happens to the people who actually believed this? Imagine someone quitting their job because “the world is ending on Monday.” They tell all their friends and family goodbye. They stop paying bills. Then Monday rolls around and…they’re still here. Now what? Do they go beg for their job back? How do they face their friends and family again? It sounds so embarrassing.

    • exanime@lemmy.today
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      7 months ago

      They’ll move on to the next conspiracy not having learned a bit from their stupid decisions… And the society they hate will continue to provide for them

      • grasshopper_mouse@lemmy.world
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        7 months ago

        I just imagine someone trying to get their job back and their former boss laughing in their face. Maybe this is how some people become homeless (because I presume they are mentally unstable to begin with).

    • Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works
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      7 months ago

      According to my friend, it happened, the world ended. Now you may be wondering how I could even have this chat with him if the world ended. Not to worry, there is a perfectly reasonable explanation…

      I am not me, and he went into a different universe when the previous world had collapsed. Apparently I wasn’t so lucky, nor any of the other 8.1 Billion souls. Only he got to come here, because his original self was already dead. How I wouldn’t have remembered him dying and doing a Jesus, is beyond me…

      This all leads me to the conclusion that my friend stopped taking his meds and has been binging rick and morty again.

    • shrugs@lemmy.world
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      7 months ago

      I wonder if there are still people living in their underground bunker believing they are the only one that survived 2000 or 2012

    • Sam_Bass@lemmy.ml
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      7 months ago

      The people that do that dont typically have jobs nor pay their own bills since they livein an environment that allows them enough free time to absorb and spread such conspiratorial material

    • some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org
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      7 months ago

      There was a great photo of a guy who bought into the Mayan calendar bullshit in 2012 (I think?). He’d given away or sold his home and all his stuff. In the photo, he was checking his watch while young people next to him were laughing. I imagine his life was ruined.

      But some cults just keep pushing the date back. See Millerites in USA:

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Disappointment

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_dates_predicted_for_apocalyptic_events